my daughters tried the new home theater last night and the reviews are in it's
freaking awesome Jake check it out
i mounted the projector by putting it on a subwoofer box on top of one of the
chairs i've got a laptop here with uh
the best movie content and the best laptop speaker system and i got around
the power outlet and Ethernet jack in the middle of the wall by simply
projecting onto the right hand side it's basically flawless
it looks awful yes
so when they watch the second half of the bad guys tonight yeah they're going
to be absolutely blown away because today we are going to be putting up the
projector screen ceiling mounting the projector and going from laptop speakers
to 7.2.4 i think we're missing one pair of
the speaker still but 5.2.4 oh
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the bad news is we have a lot of work to do today the good news is we have some
awesome helpers we've got Dan we've got jamie who is
actually wearing his old geek squad sweater
which i love and they've already done some of the most tedious work for us
setting up the projector screen how'd it go it took five hours or something like
five hours what the
now i gotta ask Jake i was in there last night and this
projector is so bright that even projecting on a black wall at 50
brightness it's like extremely usable so why did we go with a
white screen instead of a gray or or a
black screen it's a great question this is the screen they sent when i asked for
a screen okay yeah it's a high resolution
optimized screen at least this is their 8k model and that basically comes down
to the the smoothness and the finish of
the uh well the white part which doesn't have to be white but on this one it's
white it has a really small frame i'm a little bit surprised at that i guess it gives
you a clean look but it also gives you less um tolerance for
light spill over the edge but it's like that velour to absorb any extra light
and there's even like backlighting although i don't think we're ever going to use that yeah so bias lighting is
included as a feature it appears to be RGB it's not like
automatic bias lighting oh just wait what backlighting it just looks
a color you said it ah
okay it comes with a little remote and you can change it whatever color you
want otherwise known as we're not gonna plug it in yeah oh okay
hey thanks for sticking it on though are you welcome it only took an hour okay
should you and i work on speakers while these boys finish up the screen sure
sure okay we need to figure out how high the screen's going this is actually very
important i hate to be that guy but i think we have to pull the screen in here
for me to be able to visualize this there's no way i'm just going to be able to like see it in my mind's eye will you
put tape that's probably more work than yeah let's just go get the screen look we
have two lovely assistants that can hold it up for us there they are they're so
lovely and Dan and jamie are here you
i'm knighting you night of the tech tips
lift up well that's clearly too low yes thanks tips are you feeling that
it's a little high yeah it's a little high both down a little
how does that feel okay all right top one okay thanks guys wonderful
all right we're trying to get all the sawdust off of the speakers i was just blowing it on to you
oh thanks here turn around stop
the speakers have been in storage for the better part of a year actually but
we're finally ready to crack them out and we realized that see Jake
can you stop what are you trying to talk it's like a
child i remember this conversation about the surrounds too and the way that i
remember it going was that we thought we were too short but there's actually two
speakers per box so we did have the right number no
that's not how it went we were just missing a box
uh because of some miscommunication i asked for another box and i think maybe
they forgot to send it cool so we might just be hanging five for now
okay and then we'll add the other ones later i think i'm quite good at blowing
question for you how many lunches do you already owe me
do you want to bet like two i think do you want to bet lunch that there are four surrounds here i mean i'd like for
them to be here sure two lunches the other way so if they
aren't here we're back to zero all right
okay here they are oh you sucked really
you actually suck that's that's scam do i sucker am i a
big giant winner you're just a cheater i
already emailed that you already knew you suck no i found them just now
yeah just now when you were in there it took me like ten seconds screw you
you probably put them there no oh i wish
we didn't buy such nice speakers because they're so heavy
didn't svs send them yeah but still and you just wish we didn't
request well i mean i did i do i still remember how james i think was
the one who sold me on the cylindrical subwoofers i don't know why based on
that they had a smaller footprint by how much though james wait isn't this
the okay so it's not much smaller than the sb 2000
which is over there which is just a little sealed subwoofer but if you move
up to the ported one it's like
right like it's enormous but this is poor this is ported and it doesn't take
it basically takes up less floor space in that one Dan you want to
see some big subs that's a subwoofer no it's more of a super woofer
are you insane there's two of them who ordered those
i blame Jake james actually tell me something okay you're the actual
audio nerd Dan one of Dan's many previous jobs was working in a recording
studio that's right what direction does this need to go does it matter it
doesn't matter it doesn't matter so it could just point at the wall and we could get that nice clean look yeah the
nice thing about subwoofers uh especially ones this size you can really
put them anywhere the frequencies that you're gonna get from a subwoofer are like feet i thought
that's like a lie though that you can put them just like wherever you want
it's not wherever wherever but it's not as critical as like tweeters or whatever
else got it okay okay but like yeah maybe it's a little ugly but like kind
of me oh you see the woofer on the map maybe it's a little ugly he says for the
viewers at home Jake's concern is that by the time you put these subwoofers
here they could actually impact your ability to see the very corner of the
screen depending where in the room you're sitting and also block sound from
the tower speakers let's just put them in and see what
happens they're only uh they're only like 86 pounds you can hand bomb that
yourself right nope nope oh you're gonna give me the sign
yeah remember carrying the couch upstairs
when you almost killed me that was fun yeah oh god
oh you're getting crushed oh my butthole oh remember how we gave that couch to my
in-laws and didn't even use it he doesn't know about that yet ah
no now i have the power oh jesus oh yes the
speaker grills i can't wait to throw these away the tweeter has a mesh thing
you can't poke it please don't
can you stop it's not like a dome it's like child sees it child immediately
starts poking at it gorgeous we mapped out the external
of the screen it's true we did that we've got our cleat location
and i guess we'll start drilling holes in the wall hey david hi it's real talk
with Dan and jamie uh real talk Dan put it against the wall
look hey we used a stud finder and look how much much of a stud it misses it
misses all of them so our studs are here
and here and the holes are not on top of those so guess what we get to
do make new holes i guess i don't know
yay yay oh anyway that's your update goodbye
everyone you just trying to plan this out yeah i remember these speakers are kind
of confusing because there's actually a couple different ways you can hook them
up either right but you can have them act as two
independent speakers or you can have them act as a single one and then it
doesn't you position it like kind of back here and then one speaker will bounce off the
back to give you like phantom surround backs yeah but they're real um and then
this would act as your just your surround right but if you don't do that
you're supposed to just point them like wood part out yeah kind of
so weird to me had we given any thought to how to mount these at all do we have
like walls so they come with little cleats and then you put feet on the
bottom so they're slightly off space from the wall yeah and then they have
fancy really low profile cables oh um
but we still should probably put them just above these plates yeah yeah that
was i think the idea like right here-ish and then
there'll be a little banana plug thing here and the two banana plugs will go in and they'll go into there okay
the actual speakers on the top are above this for the most part cause you're
gonna be a little bit higher back there yep i'll be right about i'll be right
about here i think it's fine yeah david was just doing a voice for the
people in the comments that are gonna say i'm actually how it should be uh
we know okay we know the center channel should go behind the screen
but we aren't going to do that oh yeah where's the center channel gonna go
just plonked we were talking about the cleats to mount the speakers so pretty
there is this it yeah one for each speaker
that holds up the whole speaker yeah and then there's little feet on the bottom
that kind of like brace it off against the wall probably like that and then you see
there's little like things on the side so that you have to put it right in the
middle you can't slide it back and forth perfect very smart
i'm looking into how we're going to mount these now um drywall anchors yeah
yeah we have toggles too which are like beefy drywall angles
and honestly like the way these are going to hang off the drywall i think
regular anchors i have good anchors i'll go get my anchors i'll show them to you
show me your anchors you shouldn't look directly into the
laser level right uh too late on that one for me oh okay how's uh i can't see
anything you can't oh okay i don't think
there's any room in this house that i am more excited for
like my last house was honestly perfect i could have stayed there forever but
the one thing that i was always like vaughn you know
man i really want a theater room i want a basement
with a cedar room and this projector is so awesome
what the was that that's the center piece of the screen okay it's only a little bent you know Jake what
i think we had accounted for the screen being higher because there's not really
room for the center channel there yeah that totally is it's not that tall not
in also being able to lift up the stage our one concern about the height right
now is that the center channel
is basically going to make it impossible to open these up any higher than about
like this i like the height though
yeah i don't really want to mess with it can you show me how high you can lift up
this stage oh that's enough to be able to cable totally i'm over it yup i'm
completely over it it'll sit here for now while we get a wall mount this is cool
we've actually got each of our speaker locations wired up twice and this ended
up being a miscommunication with the low voltage
people but it worked out really well because they're wired up once and this
is with four conductors so i guess we could buy amp them or run them in duet
mode if we really wanted to that's going to this closet right here
so you can have your receiver there with your connections to all your subwoofers
and speakers and you got Ethernet and power and all that good stuff in there
and then it's actually wired up again with just two conductors to the
mechanical room so if we wanted to rack mount everything in a completely
separate room for perfect silence that could also be done
technically um these are just random wood screws not
the ones yeah um
but it seems like yeah it'll thread in there and actually the way that these
plastic ones flare out it just breaks off anyways so it should be fine yeah it
should be it should operate pretty much the same way it's supposed to and if it
doesn't we're gonna find that out really quickly yeah it wouldn't be the first
thing that fell off the wall today the bar fell out again what
yeah it's really bent now there's no way to
retain it in the screen then the thing is that
jamie tells me the bar is really just to stop the screening from like coming in
and out uh-huh yeah it's just to keep it the fabric a little bit more rigid well
we should still put it back in big moment time
here we go big moment energy yeah it's really tight those screws
oh uh you got to go over a little bit give it a little
wiggle wiggle
oh baby okay we're back from lunch and i think
the plan is that i'm gonna finish up the last three speakers
and uh the professionals here
are gonna start figuring out the professional mount the projector sure
according to this thing we have to start with the scary part which is drilling a hole in the ceiling uh-oh you guys
excited no oh when you have a projector like the ls 12000 which has a optical
zoom you can kind of position the projector wherever you want but there is
a minimum distance and if you go within that it's not going to fill the whole
screen now ideally we put it exactly at
the minimum distance because then we don't have to use the zoom which means
we get the most amount of light right but we also have like very ample light
for a light controlled environment yeah so we'll probably put it you know six
inches past something like that
cool but we do kind of need to see how this goes together before we can drill
the hole this is the epson screen calculator thing you basically punch in
what projector you have uh tell it what size screen you have and the aspect
ratio and it tells you your usable throw distances so our minimum is around 142
inches which is just just under 12 feet so i'm thinking we're going to try to
mount it around 12 feet 6 inches or so just to give
ourselves a little bit of wiggle room then we'll use a tiny bit of zoom but not enough that it's going to impact our
light output by any amount that we'll be able to tell
cool wow holy crap we are very far
so this is like 14 feet the issue is just that this is where our
access panel is for HDMI and power so
unless we want to have wires running across the ceiling like that also it
gets the fan from the projector closer to the front primo seats
i did tell the contractors 12 to 13 feet and this is like 16.
whatever i mean you don't want to see the projector either though so i i i get
it black yeah i want to see that all right we're just
going to put it like here-ish wherever the stud is yeah okay cool wow that's
like actually pretty nice we've got a knob there to hold it on and another one
this side to lock it in there and it's threaded as well all this is
metal this is a really good mount that's amazing the way i had envisioned this
was that we were gonna have like shelves for them to sit on because i'm an idiot
so this is way better once that plate's in there and it's just like banana
plugged in it's gonna look so clean hopefully these screws are going to be
tight enough so this won't fall on Linus's kids what nothing jesus christ
Dan that's dark if anybody is bored we could go get the receiver oh yeah look
at that trick well the issue is that it only has a single uh 4k 120hz input
or is it a single or a dual i don't i don't remember the point is there's much
lower end models that cost like half as much that are more functional for what i
would need and i think that by the time that room reaches its final form this
will have been replaced by an HDMI matrix switcher
and some other amplification solution and this will be completely utterly
irrelevant sounds about right it looks pretty though okay you want to grab the side
i'll try oh my god the stud is like here
so i could have it here yeah and the projector would come back to like there
and then there'd be kind of a jump that's fine or the next option is like racing no no
no no okay so let's put it on this one yeah i picked up an NVIDIA shield tv pro
as well i have the regular shield tv but i'm gonna put that somewhere else
because if there's anywhere that we're gonna want 4k upscaling
in the theater room it's going to be the place ah
and no offense to what is it denon or whatever yeah no offense but NVIDIA's ai
up scaling is probably better than whatever crap you're doing and then for
the pc this is our original founders 3080 that
i like temporarily took to put in my vr gaming rig as like a troubleshooting
thing and then never brought back to the office so oop sorry about that
it's the last scary thing we're drilling in the projector mount oh
i hope i don't hit anything
oh i definitely hit a stud that's good oh god i mean that's not really going to do
anything but screw it whatever hey david david do you like my computer chair
get it it's a computer
and it's a chair okay oh my gosh we're gonna gaslight jamie he had to stop and
take a leak and he put this outside the bathroom door so when he comes back everyone just be like no i don't know
what you're talking about are you coming back are you going to come back with sockets at some point
they disappear what well where'd you put them
is there any other sockets anywhere no i only have the one wait well did you get
did you get like my sockets like did you get the ones in the in the drawer yeah
well where are you
like there's no one else here they didn't spring legs and just screw off
i i believe you because i moved them
god you suck how much would you tow these in Dan who's your main where are
you gonna sit david where david is yeah point it at his left ear oh that's looks
gonna look so stupid though yeah so point it like
point it like most of the way to his left ear we got power in here
we got a projector on the ceiling what else is going on here oh wow that is very not
straight there's a lot of HDMI cable in here Jake
where is ron expecting us to okay well there exactly right there
okay display side good he ran it the right way they're directional this is an
optical HDMI cable which means that it's
got to go well one way and this is the correct way
we had three power cables and it probably doesn't matter but the thicker ones we definitely used for the subs
they can drop to 1500 watts each
at peak which is why this room has so many freaking circuits in it each of
those subwoofers is plugged into a duplex receptacle that has its own
dedicated circuit i believe this is a dedicated circuit to
the projector up here because there can be pretty power hungry projectors this
one will do like 300 watts or so yeah um and then i forget where the other
circuits are in here i believe there's a dedicated two to that closet
for just you know receivers and gaming pcs and xboxes and all that kind of
stuff and we are powered up ladies and gentlemen where is the remote i don't
think that thing's powered dude the circuit in the ceiling is off
we figured out the problem the projector shares a circuit with this
boy which is wow you're just gonna grab it i
didn't even say i turned it off yet yeah i know it's off it's already off it was
on it was on it was on yeah it's off now it's awful anyway
this boy is power for the stage which the back row is going to sit on it's
going to be about 12 13 inches high and it will have power inside it for the
powered seats um well as you can see it's just
bare freaking wires so
having that circuit on is pretty dangerous but what we can do is we can
just uh where'd my strippers go yeah we can just cap it off and then we
should be good to go it's not like there'll be kids in here
or anything cool let's go flip that switch back on watch that light on fire
now much safer wait are we are we doing it i just pressed the button oh god this
is not just a second hold on there's a plan
i need to do a teddy bear stand okay so just go
um maybe it's initial all settings this is actually a way smarter way to do this
there we go okay okay see you later hey
okay front front ceiling oh my gosh hey
here we go wait this is that stupid audiophile
grade switch yeah we've got a video coming about this ladies and gentlemen the worst part it's just up to 2 000
megabits per port like it's not wrong but oh my god is that the most
misleading thing i've ever super misleading oh it actually like yes it's
full duplex yes technically you can send a gigabit each way but that's not how
anybody else interprets talks about it yeah looks pretty bright hey yeah
well not with the lights on this is that 50 brightness 50
oh my god oh my god that's way more than necessary oh my god
the lights are on oh my gosh and the window is open this microphone is so
that the receiver can automatically calibrate for the room that it's set up
in so what we do is we take it and we put it
right on Jake's face right here because that's the listening position sorry Jake
just one second you just kind of hold still for a second oh the fact he's got
a defective face sorry defective face we're gonna have to put it here that's
kind of that's kind of centered enough well they do boring software
configuration stuff in here that you can actually check out in the previous video
david and i are going to grab an LTT hoodie so we don't get cold
and we're going to head outside oh right indoor hoodie lttstore.com we're not
promoting this one right now though because we're out of stock so buy a win hoodie or a swag kit
in the longer term i think a wooden shutter of some sort is going to be the
solution to completely blocking light at that window but for the time being ah
we've got a handful of options we've got this duvetyne which is like a heavy
light control fabric that we use for filming we've got RAM board which is
just basically rolled cardboard we've got garbage bags
david and i are going to go see what our options look like and figure out what
works i'd say the most temporary solution is definitely the RAM board
why don't we try it let's see if we can get a good light seal and if we can then
maybe we'll just go with that i don't really want to chuck some of our
duvetyne outside ah oh no did i go wide enough
uh oh david did i go wide enough
yeah this is really not ideal what i'm doing here
how darkened do you think this probably is
all right this worked pretty well though yeah
there's a gap there oh it's not bad though you what are you gonna go fix it
yeah i'm gonna fix it here hold on before he's gonna do the duvet before you go
center channel front right it's around right let's
round back right so round back left surround
a lot of speakers wow hey look you wanna hear some gloves
okay that's enough webs i think everybody shut up
jamie you sitting yep david doesn't know situation dude we have the plastic
covers on the grills for the ceiling speakers so it completely screwed the
calibration we could just like shout out svs right
now this is this is their ultra 5.1 setup then we've got their
pc pc2000 subwoofers
and the in ceilings are from clips these are rpc 180 180i or something like that
these things sound great like compared to my old sonos setup just all of these
speakers amazing oh my god these seats have
memory shut up i don't know how you said it but i just
clicked that button and it just okay like i go to a different position and click eye again
shout out valencia thank you these theater seats are actually incredible
yeah first thing our contractor said when he came in here he was just like
coming in to check out what we were working on he's like i don't know how i'm gonna get back up from this chair we
take our reactions very seriously we've all like actually not experienced this
yet okay you guys ready for some sound demos
actually the center channel down there is like fine that's fine it does a really good job of
putting it in front of you who's around you in three-dimensional space
with breathtaking audio quality the sub the subs need to be more brings the
on-screen action alive
i mean this demo really is not very impressive right now with the lights on
it still looks pretty good it's very usable this is like what i'm used to
with most projectors you know like the audio
oh man i really i feel like i'm in a movie theater right now oh me too
it's like like it's full it's not
okay the top channels that's pretty cool
this is a cool demo i'm gonna turn it down a tiny bit yeah
wow dude is this a tv or is this a projector
i would have a hard time telling you really hard time in this environment for
real though like holy
oh my god my mind is just blown right now like
look at the blacks that's pretty good man i can't believe this projector i
know it's still a lot of money but i can't believe this only costs five
thousand dollars i gotta be honest guys this is like uh
this is like uh i made it moment i have
wanted a home theater for so long
this is legitimately a dream come true moment for me right now
so this is where you get to a point where you might want to tweak the HDR on the projector a little bit but uh yeah
still the amount of detail in the shadows
crazy pitch oh boy you know how you were talking about that uh how you can have
like projector screens that automatically aspect ratio control okay
we could do a poor man's version of that we just have a couple little motors
and just like uh like a duvetyne or a velvet thing that just goes
and so you don't get that spell that's basically what the fancy ones do oh
really oh i would have thought they would like extend or something i don't know i'm
pretty sure it's just a curtain that covers the front i'm willing to bet if your name is mark zuckerberg there's one
that like freaking reconfigures on its own mind you probably have a wall at
that point yeah but i mean like they literally it's just like a curtain that covers part of the screen oh okay yeah
well then yeah we could totally do that i think we could like diy that yeah just
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what are you gonna do with those 11 more hours a week you could go hiking you
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this video there is tons more house content it's kind of devolved into just
me Jake and an assortment of other side characters
just shooting the breeze um but apparently you guys enjoy it so
there's gonna be lots more coming uh big shout out to svs big shout out to
klipsch uh elune vision who sent the screen
uh god what's the other one valencia theater ceiling yeah oh man especially
big shout out to them how's the seats kids comfy yeah